ha, sounds reasonable :) thanks Christoph!
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings. > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:17:38 +0100 Bobby Powers <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Has an issue with st where the _'s were being overwritten when text on > > the next line was drawn. This didn't happen in gnome-terminal, which > > uses pango for its font rendering. Pango's Xft backend uses ascent + > > descent rather than height. This appears to date back to at least > > 2004 (pango commit 5bf0c1d0) so I'm not sure their exact reasoning, > > but it fixes the Monospace font height issue I am seeing. > > I applied the patch without the big useless comment. If there would be a > comment about all wrong behaviour of xft and how bad the fontconfig API > is, st would double its raw source size. > > > Sincerely, > > Christoph Lohmann > > >
